Firearm magazine for high ballistic coefficient cartridges

Abstract

A firearm magazine with an anti-tilt follower assembly housed within a magazine body is provided. The magazine includes a lock plate; a floor plate; a spring; one or more ribs within the magazine body, and one or more channels within the magazine body that have a consistent profile along their length. In some embodiments, the outer front and rear ends of the magazine body are angled forward relative to a magazine well of a firearm. In many embodiments, the anti-tilt follower assembly comprises a front tine and a rear tine, each tine having a curvature to substantially correspond with curvature of an inside of the magazine body. A method of molding a polymer follower for a firearm is also provided, which includes injecting a liquid polymer into the mold between the mold core and the mold cavity uses a side-to-side tooling split for the injection molding process.

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